In solidarity with Portsmouth Asylum applicants (or those denied any right to remain in the UK) ordinary people took their sleep stuff, sleeping bags and tent to the home street of a local politician to rest and show a prescence. To say that, it simply is not acceptable to play with people's lives by organising their removal, or leaving them destitute if they need to refuse.

Gerald Vernon-Jackson (a man who we would like to see show more compassion) sadly and effectively protested and campaigned to ensure that the home office arranged the removal off and turned their backs on at least 100 Portsmouth asylum applicants and started the dispersal across the country. What quality level of compassion is that? Good politics is always compassionate - this was not compassion!

'Aliens' are mythical species from outer space maybe with antennae growing out of their heads they are not asylum seekers or refugees.

Joseph Bunni in the article below states:
"I have friends here and it's not east to go somewhere else and establish yourself as an alien".
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/6275284.stm

"I am very happy here. I have friends here and it's not easy to go somewhere else and establish yourself as an alien," he said.
 http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/portsmouth-and-southsea?articleid=3003446

One person asked Mr Gerrard Vernon-Jackson via parcel post, (snail mail no less) to reflect on what the emotional and social costs of moving settled people to other towns might be. We are privelaged to have them in our midst - we need to show them hospitality and kindness. People working with asylum applicants, people who are trafficked and those denied a right to remain that many have been abused, tortured and are liable to severe mental illness if continued to be mistreated by local and national policy by beurocrats.

Please add your own comments, and look out for a forthcoming public meeting - details hopefully to be posted here.